EVERY time I take the Long Island RR from my home in Little Neck into the City, I enjoy the views I have of Sunnyside Yards, which the tracks travel…

KEEP looking up! At building rooflines, that is. But be careful that the coast is clear, many New Yorkers have no tolerance for skyward gawkers, especially if they’re race walking…

THE plan was simple on this July afternoon. For an invigorating but not too taxing outing I would walk Norman Avenue as far east as comfortable, then head back west…

I enjoy a stroll around Fort Totten, located in eastern Queens at the north end of Bell Boulevard where the Cross Island Parkway turns west. From 2017-2021 I often bicycled…

To my eternal regret I completely missed what was a lamppost graveyard in Tribeca, now one of NYC’s most expensive neighborhoods, for many years in the 1970s and into the…

THE word “donnybrook” is derived from a public fair that was held in Donnybrook, Ireland beginning in the 1200s. By the 1800s, the Donnybrook Fair had a reputation of being a drunken, wild…

IT’S been three years since I walked 79th Street, Upper East and West Side, through Central Park, for a FNY Crosstown entry that hasn’t happened yet. FNY has a backlog…

HAVING documented the preservation of original hangars from 1939 at LaGuardia Airport and public artworks inside the new Terminal B, there is also an outdoor garden with sculptures evoking the…

BEING a type guy, I noticed this sign for New York Spa and Sauna as I was scuttling north on 149th Street at Northern Boulevard recently. I noticed it was…

As a rule, NYC streets are given designations, seemingly arbitrarily, by the engineer who is plotting the map years before buildings on the streets are actually constructed. In Manhattan, with…

I am in a slight rush this AM and otherwise got nuthin’, so here’s a fine plastic-lettered sign at #765 Grand Street at Humboldt for what was once Grand Cleaners.…

FOLLOWING a relative period of inactivity due to various ailments, I have been gradually getting back into the swing and visiting realms where I haven’t appeared in recent years. One…